New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-09-14
MR.. BALFOUR'S TRIUMPH.
NE DEFEATS THE TAME ATTACK OF Six
VI HIRCOuRT AND Mr.. GLADSTONE.

he DEFEATS THE IAMC a. Do,oyD
". HARCOURT AND MR.. GLADSioNE'
.vcrSr pREcEpENTs PREFERRED TO ANCIENT
nn,y,oNs-rrFECT OF THE LATEST MooSLIdH8
,,upppR-MR. BRIGHTs LETTER-THs
QUEENS NEW srUDY-MIss ANDERSON
CRITICIsED-DRAMATIC NOTES.
lpY CABLE TO THE rRrBUSEl
Copvrfght; 1887: The NeW- York Trfbun~
LONDON, Sept. 13.-Iast nights attack on the
1oye,nment. which Sir William Harcourt led ana
Mr.. Gladstone Supported Is described by the lad
erals themselves as rather tame Sir W>lliam
IIarct urt was most learned and 11r. SItdstche
was Dcry in defence Of free speech ant; thc fler'
Of poor men to combine; yet onoc more has IL
happened that Mr. Balfour carried OF the hopors
of the evening. Sir William Harcourts elaoora'e
legalitics were deemed ill-suited to the House Oh
Commons. People do not deeply care what Lord
Eldon thought about the right OF public meeung'
Mr. Balfour brushed away oil the legal coowepS
which Sir William Harcourt spun. and the House
cheered and laughed while he Justified OoVei".
ment interference in behalf of public order OUT OIL
Sir William Harcourts own mouth wh'lc 'he
latter was himself responsible, as Home cre-
tsry. for order. The fact that Mr.. Gladstone s
Government had put down 130 meetings. actine
with no other authority than the common law
mons point of view Mr.. Gladstone says that
is the tu quoque argument. Perhaps 1t ls'
There is no other In which the House is so much
delighted.
The whole debate was far less passionate than
was expected. Sir William Harcourt steered
clear of what the Liberal papers now call the
Mtchelstown massacre, and MIR. Gladstone oe-
clned to express an opinion on the conduct Oh
the polioe, though he rebulSed Mr. Balfour Tor
iustifying them. The truth is that the 1resh
murder of O constable by moonlighters In county
Clare, which became known yesterday afternoon
modified the Liberal and Parnellite tactics ana
gravely modiGes English opinions on the whole
question between the rolce and the Irish people.
sThe Daily News" which fills many columns,
news and editorial, even to-day, with Mitchels-
town. hardly finds room for meagre narrative
of the killing of Head Constable Whelehan. That
parnellites honestly deplore this event is beyond
question They would deplore it in any case.
They are <eenly aware of its effect in England at
this moment. Mr.. O'Brien's arrest and his atti-
tude as martyr to free speech might have
moved many an Englshman whose attention
Is now fixed on the latest victim of moonnghung'
Two suspensions early this morning were rather
out of the usual course Mr.. Graham was pun
ished for reflection on the House of Lords such
as the House of Commons never tolerates, and MIR.
Harrington for o personal insult to the Speaker.
Mr.. Brights noble letter regretfully declining
the invitation to the Centennial at Philadelphia
contains one sentence which ought to remind
Americans how much we owe to his undaunted
and unfaltering friendship in our darkest hours
"My voice. says this lifelong Tribune of the
English people, "was raised at that time in
favor of that American unity which hope may
never again he endangered nor impaired" This
Invitation to Mr.. Bright, signed by Mr. Kasson
rs Chairman of the Commission, is curious
commentary ON Mr. IIurlberts effort TO
obtain Mr.. Gladstone's acceptance by
the assurance that addressed TO any
other person not an American citizen OF diplo-
matist at Washington.
I'VE cannot WONDER" observes "The Leeds
Mercury one of those powerful provincial jour
mails which Mr.. Gladstone applauds, that Mr..
Bright and Mr.. Gladstone have declined at their
sge and under present circumstances to cross
the Atlantic twice. But not the less may the
American people rest assured that the sympathy
and good wishes of the English Nation are with
them in the celebration of the centennial anni-
versary Of their Constitution"
1t is now stated on what is called the highest
authority that the Queen does not intend pub
fishing a new look. Such rumors arc stgmatized
rs clumsy inventions. The Empress Of India,
says this wise person, is learning Ilindustani,
and that is Her Majesty's only literary occupa-
ion at present.
Miss Anderson's double performance of Her
mione" and "rerdita' in a Winters Tale" at
the Lyoum Theatre, which was fairly well re-
ceived by the audience, finds little favor with the
critics. A protest needed, and is fully made
against the liberties the actress takes with Shake
speaes play in order TO assume two characters
at once. Her present version says Mr. Clement
Scott, ais clumsy and wearsome. She has
abandoned.r says Tic Tines "her earlier
eccentricties of treatment and invented ac-
cepted another still Objectionable 1t is
time for common well dramatic
propriety to intervene"
Miss Andcrson's "IIcrmione ~ considered by
itself. is condemned not less unsparipgly Dramatic
writer's agree in preferrlng her "Perdta."~ "Ihe
Tines praises this last in spite of its afe tations,
yet says: ave have no 'Hcrmione' and Per
dita before US, but only Mary Anderson,
masqueradng now as an DID, now young
woman" Had it not been, says Mr.. Scott
"for the scene painter and stage manager, for
the landscapes and dances, for the decorator and
the ballet master, tie whole thing would have been
D hollow mockery and soulless story, The
audience carried away idea Of 'Hcrmione'
or 'Perdita' save that 'Hcrmione' beau
tful and 'Perdita' pretty. Intellectually all
was blank Most critics think the Oracle
scene, where "Hermione' falls stricken by the
news OF her sons death, finely conceived and
rendered. In few others is she at all equal to
the task she has set herself. She wants dis
unction, she wants pathos, she wants power, and
she turns poetry into prose. The scenery, the
dances and the statue scene may attract the
m no aiA hat Apna on
has increased her reputation an actress by
this last effort
Negotiations between Mrs. James Brown Potter
and Ar Mpor have fpo1l, rocn1to1 In ar, a1rao